Monday, April 27, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING PART 1 (0:0 - 11:36): ────────────────── U.K. Minors to be Banned from Surgery to ‘Change’ Gender: The Controversy Reveals as Much as the Announcement THE TELEGRAPH (GABRIELLA SWERLING) Trans children to be banned from surgery to change their gender, the equalities minister announces WORLD MAGAZINE Regretted PART 2 (11:37 - 13:40): ────────────────── Saving a Billion People from Starvation: Not Everyone Thinks It Was a Good Idea NEW YORK TIMES (BRAD PLUMER AND JOHN SCHWARTZ) 50 Years of Earth Day: What’s Better Today, and What’s Worse PART 3 (13:41 - 24:41): ────────────────── Ideas Have Consequences: Sometimes It Comes Down to Whether People Eat or Starve WALL STREET JOURNAL (THE EDITORIAL BOARD) Battering Norman Borlaug ALLIANCE FOR SCIENCE (JUSTIN CREMER) Norman Borlaug saved millions of lives, would his critics prefer he hadn’t? THE GUARDIAN (JOHN VIDAL) Norman Borlaug: humanitarian hero or menace to society?